Posted: Jun 08, 2019 6:48 pm
tuco wrote:
What are you saying?
I am saying that we should prepare, we should instill policies, for example as per the recommendations of IPBES Global Assessment, for 20B - the worst case scenario.
What do you propose?
He's not proposing anything, but then, neither are you, in contradistinction to the elevated opinion you have of whatever you think you're doing. Yammering at tedious length about what people should do is not a strategy, in case you're just catching up to the idea of a strategy. Yammering about what people should do is what college kids in the dorm do at 2 AM over a half empty keg of beer, and it's what preachers in pulpits do, too.
Odds on, what's going to happen is that no drastic measures will be implemented until after a few mega-catastrophes involving weather or mass migration due to regional failures of agriculture. When that happens, politics will go to hell and the sorts of repressive solutions that will be applied will make your nightmares about compulsory family planning look like a Sunday joy ride-- to you, if you live so long. You obviously have a thing about repressive policies, claiming you lived through them, which means that by now you might have grown up enough not to have a tantrum every time someone waves a hypothetical at you. It means you're old enough and mature enough not to give the middle finger to a few ideas that don't suit your mood.
tuco wrote:Do you want to know what I personally think?
We fucking well know what you think, which is not very clearly when you're in the middle of one of your tantrums.